Lawrence Walters

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Just a person in the Upper Valley NH/VT

He/him

Noob #masstodon question here from a bird site user - why retoot and not favorite? What am I missing?

Congrats to India on their technological prowess and perseverance to land on the moon!

But - this goes for all spacefaring nations - why is it easier to send something a quarter million miles than it is to fix hunger and poverty?

"But we HAVE to support the NYT!"

Meanwhile, the NYT: "LOL, LMAO, we want you all to die."

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I had the oddest dream last night. It involved logging into some sort of high security system. Of course, this system used two-factor authentication, but the second factor was, a dog. You entered your username and password, then you had to call this dog to you and pet him. If dog approved of you, login successful. If dog didn't come, or ignored you altogether, you were not authorized. Hmm. Maybe I should work on inventing this ...

"Politics isn't a game."

No, it isn't. It's serious. So why do they keep acting like it is?

You can't keep telling people the future is a fascist takeover and ecological collapse, and conservatives and corporations are the ones directly responsible and are blocking efforts to fix it, and not expect people to ask why we're being so goddamn nice to them in that case.